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20092026
most citedOrder of Magnitude Smaller Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron

1k citations · 3.9k across the 60 of their papers we have counts for

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59 papers

physics.atom-ph2026

Probing -Symmetry Violation with Optically Trapped Asymmetric Top Molecules

Yuxi Yang, Arian Jadbabaie, Lukáš Félix Pašteka +3

Searches for -violating electromagnetic moments are among the most sensitive probes of physics beyond the Standard Model. Extending beyond current limits will benefit from mol…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 1 cited

Engineered Molecular Clock Transitions for Symmetry Violation Searches

Yuiki Takahashi, Harish D. Ramachandran, Arian Jadbabaie +3

Heavy polar molecules are sensitive probes of physics Beyond the Standard Model. However, uncontrolled external electromagnetic fields pose challenges to achieving precise and accu…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 2 cited

Production and spectroscopy of cold radioactive molecules

Chandler J. Conn, Phelan Yu, Madison I. Howard +8

Molecules with heavy, radioactive nuclei promise extreme sensitivity to fundamental nuclear and particle physics. However, these nuclei are available in limited quantities, which c…

physics.chem-ph2025

Rapid, Broadband, Optical Spectroscopy of Cold Radicals

Ashay N. Patel, Madison I. Howard, Timothy C. Steimle +1

Optical spectroscopy of molecular radicals is an important tool in physical chemistry, and is a prerequisite for many experiments which use molecules for quantum science and precis…

physics.chem-ph2025

A Molecular Beam Study of the (0,0) A2Π<- X2Σ+ Band of CaF Isotopologues

Termeh Bashiri, Phelan Yu, Nicholas R. Hutzler +3

This study presents an experimental determination of spectroscopic parameters for the less-abundant isotopologues CaF and CaF, alongside CaF, using high-resolu…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 9 cited

Prospects for measuring the electron's electric dipole moment with polyatomic molecules in an optical lattice

Roman Bause, Nithesh Balasubramanian, Ties Fikkers +8

We present the conceptual design of an experiment to measure the electron's electric dipole moment (eEDM) using BaOH molecules in an optical lattice. The BaOH molecule is l…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 12 cited

Relativistic Exact Two-Component Coupled-Cluster Study of Molecular Sensitivity Factors for Nuclear Schiff Moments

Tianxiang Chen, Chaoqun Zhang, Lan Cheng +12

Relativistic exact two-component coupled-cluster calculations of molecular sensitivity factors for nuclear Schiff moments (NSMs) are reported. We focus on molecules containing heav…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 6 cited

-violation sensitivity of closed-shell radium-containing polyatomic molecular ions

Konstantin Gaul, Nicholas R. Hutzler, Phelan Yu +3

Closed-shell atoms and molecules such as Hg or TlF provide some of the best low-energy tests of hadronic -violation which is considered to be a necessary ingredient t…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 9 cited

Electroweak Nuclear Properties from Single Molecular Ions in a Penning Trap

Jonas Karthein, Silviu-Marian Udrescu, Scott B. Moroch +10

We present a novel technique to probe electroweak nuclear properties by measuring parity violation (PV) in single molecular ions in a Penning trap. The trap's strong magnetic field…

hep-ph2023★ 9 cited

Searching for axion forces with spin precession in atoms and molecules

Prateek Agrawal, Nicholas R. Hutzler, David E. Kaplan +2

We propose to use atoms and molecules as quantum sensors of axion-mediated monopole-dipole forces. We show that electron spin precession experiments using atomic and molecular beam…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 17 cited

Quantum-Enhanced Metrology for Molecular Symmetry Violation using Decoherence-Free Subspaces

Chi Zhang, Phelan Yu, Arian Jadbabaie +1

We propose a method to measure time-reversal symmetry violation in molecules that overcomes the standard quantum limit while leveraging decoherence-free subspaces to mitigate sensi…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 10 cited

Sympathetic cooling and slowing of molecules with Rydberg atoms

Chi Zhang, Seth T. Rittenhouse, Timur V. Tscherbul +2

We propose to sympathetically slow and cool polar molecules in a cold, low-density beam using laser-cooled Rydberg atoms. The elastic collision cross sections between molecules and…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 16 cited

Intensity-borrowing mechanisms pertinent to laser cooling of linear polyatomic molecules

Chaoqun Zhang, Nicholas R. Hutzler, Lan Cheng

A study of the intensity-borrowing mechanisms important to optical cycling transitions in laser-coolable polyatomic molecules arising from non-adiabatic coupling, contributions bey…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 13 cited

Optical cycling in polyatomic molecules with complex hyperfine structure

Yi Zeng, Arian Jadbabaie, Ashay N. Patel +3

We have developed and demonstrated a scheme to achieve rotationally-closed photon cycling in polyatomic molecules with complex hyperfine structure and sensitivity to hadronic symme…

nucl-ex2023★ 2 cited

Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos (FSNN): Whitepaper for the 2023 NSAC Long Range Plan

B. Acharya, C. Adams, A. A. Aleksandrova +176

This whitepaper presents the research priorities decided on by attendees of the 2022 Town Meeting for Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons and Neutrinos, which took place December 13-1…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 17 cited

Engineering field-insensitive molecular clock transitions for symmetry violation searches

Yuiki Takahashi, Chi Zhang, Arian Jadbabaie +1

Molecules are a powerful platform to probe fundamental symmetry violations beyond the Standard Model, as they offer both large amplification factors and robustness against systemat…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 6 cited

Direct measurement of high-lying vibrational repumping transitions for molecular laser cooling

Nickolas H. Pilgram, Arian Jadbabaie, Chandler J. Conn +1

Molecular laser cooling and trapping requires addressing all spontaneous decays to excited vibrational states that occur at the level, which is accompli…

physics.optics2023

Non-resonant cavity for intensity buildup of multiple lasers

Yi Zeng, Nicholas R. Hutzler

A non-resonant cavity to build up laser intensity is modeled, developed and tested. It can be used for overlapping multiple lasers of different wavelengths, increasing their intens…

nucl-ex2023★ 77 cited

Opportunities for Fundamental Physics Research with Radioactive Molecules

Gordon Arrowsmith-Kron, Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, Mia Au +59

Molecules containing short-lived, radioactive nuclei are uniquely positioned to enable a wide range of scientific discoveries in the areas of fundamental symmetries, astrophysics,…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 56 cited

Quantum Control of Trapped Polyatomic Molecules for eEDM Searches

Loïc Anderegg, Nathaniel B. Vilas, Christian Hallas +4

Ultracold polyatomic molecules are promising candidates for experiments in quantum science, quantum sensing, ultracold chemistry, and precision measurements of physics beyond the S…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 26 cited

Characterizing the Fundamental Bending Vibration of a Linear Polyatomic Molecule for Symmetry Violation Searches

Arian Jadbabaie, Yuiki Takahashi, Nickolas H. Pilgram +4

Polyatomic molecules have been identified as sensitive probes of charge-parity violating and parity-violating physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). For example, many linear tria…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

Fundamental Physics in Small Experiments

T. Blum, P. Winter, T. Bhattacharya +10

High energy physics aims to understand the fundamental laws of particles and their interactions at both the largest and smallest scales of the universe. This typically means probin…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 18 cited

Molecular enhancement factors for P, T-violating eEDM in BaCH and YbCH symmetric top molecules

Yuly Chamorro, Anastasia Borschevsky, Ephraim Eliav +3

High-precision tests of fundamental symmetries are looking for the parity- (P), time-reversal- (T) violating electric dipole moment of the electron (eEDM) as proof of physics beyon…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 10 cited

Multivalent optical cycling centers in polyatomic molecules

Phelan Yu, Adrian Lopez, William A. Goddard +1

Optical control of polyatomic molecules promises new opportunities in precision metrology, fundamental chemistry, quantum information, and many-body science. Contemporary experimen…